Crab Orchard Review Vol 23 No 3 March 2019

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JD Hegarty Barriers to Entry There’s a fee to take the test, and there’s books to read before it, classes to ensure you get the best score in the district. There’s a cost to applications; reaching takes more from you. Be selective. Keep your ambitions low. You’ll have to live inside a fifteen foot by fifteen box, with a privileged stranger. There’s a credit if you triple bunk. They buy their food for pennies, dole it out for points and blocks. Rates fixed on the intersection of starvation and convenience. If your parents have no money, lenders will hold this against you. Or, they will whittle out funding for you to pay back sevenfold. If you don’t account for the origination fee, you’ll find yourself with a financial hold, and a decade of harassing phone calls. Summer classes might move you faster toward a close, but come at extortion rates. They do not serve you well.

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